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Altina L. Waller exposes the old myths about the two families at war, the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s, in the book, Feud Hatfield’s, McCoy’s, and social change in Appalachia, 1860-1900. Waller shows us that this was not only a feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families, it also included many people who were not in those families. Waller has a different perspective of the feud, and no one else has ever looked at it in the same way before. She dug up crucial facts that brought fuel to the feud.…

student confided the information to a friend. The friend told the teacher about the abuse and the teacher informed the school counselor. After a verbal counseling session and play therapy, the student showed signs of sexual abuse. The State of Maryland requires an official report of sexual abuse to be reported in forty-eight hours to Child Protective Services, the school principal made an official report of the abuse to CPS. Keywords: sexual abuse, CPS, ethics METHOD Using the case study…

B. The Decision to Reduce the Frequency of the JIA’s Yearly Meetings to One Annual Meeting Will Not Expose the JIA to Any Significantly Liability Risks In Maryland, the JIA was established by means of the Maryland Property Insurance Availability Act, which is found in Md. Code (1957, 2001 repl. vol., 2016 suppl.) § 25-401 et seq. of the Insurance Article (“INS”). Similar to the DCPIF, the JIA is also an unincorporated association. INS § 25-403(a)(2). Contrary to the DCPIF, however, the JIA does…

“If my name ever goes in \to history it will be for this act”. A quote said by Abraham Lincoln who was one of the most famous and remembered presidents in history. For his actions that recreated America entirely. He created the emancipation proclamation which saved most of the enslaved african americans. And furthermore saved America from the civil war.”Emancipation” by Russell Freedman and “ O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman portray Lincoln as a fierce and capable leader through symbolism…

Discussion Post 5 Robert E Lee and Ulysses S. Grant were both strong Generals, on opposing sides of the United States civil war. They both represented the values each respective side was fighting for. Although they had very opposing views on how the country should be ran, they put that aside to bring an end to the war on April 9th, 1865. Robert E. Lee the General fighting for the Confederacy, was trying to maintain a certain way of life, he thought was the only way to thrive. He believed in…

In January 1st, 1863, the famous Emancipation Proclamation – an official document that seeks to end slavery, was issued by Abraham Lincoln - the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln has been well-known for his effort and decision towards ending slavery back in the 19th century. With persistence characteristic, he navigated simultaneously to maintain national unity, resolve the civil war, while also freeing the slaves. He was re-elected president in 1964. The following year, the Federal…

Many people have different views on the cause of the civil war but I honestly think the big deal was to keep slavery and state rights vs. getting the south to join The Union, not to end slavery at all. The south’s fight in the civil war was not to end slavery but to defend it. The south wanted to keep slaves so that they could keep cotton and tobacco trades with Europe. This was their main source for the south’s economic strength. Lots of money was being made and slave trade was cheap. Southern…

Lincoln’s plan at the outset of the Civil War was to capture southern territory. He was not an abolitionist and endorsed colonization as a solution to slavery. He found himself the focus of pressure from anti-slavery advocates imploring him to comprehend that slavery was the economic and social foundation of the South. They felt emancipation was required in order to weaken the South and that abolition must become a war aim. By 1862, Lincoln determined that emancipation had become a military and…

In the American Civil War, the North and South fought over different ideals. Many experts believe that the issue of slavery caused the Civil War. However, people said it was more complex than that. Some experts believe that economic differences caused the Civil War, while others say that it was about state’s rights. This paper argues that all three ideas contributed to the South seceding and the start of the Civil War. Abolitionism contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. These…

Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is thought to have been a war strategy. People believe this because when Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, he made slaves free only in confederate states. This strategy hurt the south and the plantation owners that lived there. By taking slaves away from plantations, the south became limited on resources. This weakened the confederacy which gave the north a better chance in the war. During the course of the Civil War, Britain relied on the…